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A Perfect Circle – Hourglass Lyrics 7 years ago
Like the rest of the album this is likely entirely relating to the current political climate, and I believe climate is the exact message of this song.

I believe the sentinels the song refers to are the various climate agreements, Kyoto, Paris, Warsaw and Durban.

Smashing the hourglass but the countdown carrying on I believe is a reference to trying to hide the problem of global warming but even if you break the clock time still passes.

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